#OnThisDay, 30 Mar 1982, Bertha Wilson was sworn in to the Canadian Supreme Court. She is the first woman appointed to sit on it.

When she had started at law school in 1955, she was reportedly advised to 'take up crocheting' instead.

Her 1988 ruling decriminalised abortion in Canada.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #CanadianHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 27 Mar 1997, Pamela Gordon becomes the first woman to be Premier of Bermuda, after winning a party leadership election. Her party, the United Bermuda Party, was centre-right.

#WomenInHistory #WomenInPolitics #WomensHistoryMonth #History #Histodons

Wer war diese Frau, die zu Lebzeiten mit einer Ikone verglichen wurde, Mitbegründerin einer Bewegung und später Partei war, sich mit Marx austauschte … und nach ihrem Attentat auf den Petersburger Polizeikommandanten Trjepow freigesprochen wurde? Wera Sassulitsch (1849–1919) /1

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#OnThisDay, 26 Mar 1974, Gaura Devi and 27 village women prevent the logging of trees in the village of Rini in the Himalayas. They confront armed men from the lumber company and hug the trees to stop them being felled.

https://carvehername.org.uk/women-fighting-deforestation-gaura-devi/

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#OnThisDay, 25 Mar 1941, the first WRNS arrive at Bletchley Park in the UK. They operate the Bombe machines used for decoding German Enigma machine messages. Their work helps shorten World War 2.

At its peak, 75% of the workforce at Bletchley were women.

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#OnThisDay, 24 Mar 1944, Éliane Plewman is arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied France after six months operating as a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance. A courier carried messages and equipment around their network.

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A German guard once asked O'Sullivan what was in her suitcase. She laughed. “A wireless, of course!”.

Very early #OnThisDay, 23 Mar 1944 , Maureen 'Paddy' O'Sullivan parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive.

The SOE supported the French Resistance. Radio operators were at the greatest risk of capture as their position could be triangulated. O’Sullivan was never captured.

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#OnThisDay, 22 March 1982, around 250 people blockade Greenham Common airbase in the UK. 34 are arrested. It was the first mass non-violent protest by the Greenham Common peace women.

Photo: Paula Allen.

Read more: https://carvehername.org.uk/greenham-women-22-march-1982/

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This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we look at another article on HPL's ex-wife Sonia H. Davis. "When Sonia Sizzled" (1973) by Gerry de la Ree gives insight into how Sonia's memoir of HPL was received.

https://deepcuts.blog/2026/03/21/when-sonia-sizzled-1973-by-gerry-de-la-ree/

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#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1945, Hannie Schaft, an active member of the Dutch resistance known as "the girl with the red hair", was arrested at a German checkpoint in Haarlem.

She was later executed, allegedly saying "I shoot better" after the first attempt to shoot her missed.

#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WW2 #DutchHistory #Histodons